Bill Retherford

Neither a trained chef or culinary expert but a true lover of food including the history, background and even the science behind what makes a great dish. With twelve years as a manufacturing consultant specializing in food processing, I have a unique perspective on how much of the food we purchase is created. Being fortunate to have travel extensively for work and pleasure provides me with ample opportunities to experience new foods and regional variations on a regular basis. I have an obsession for Reubens and will select a reuben sandwich without consideration of anything else on the menu if available.

Most commented posts

  1. Oven Baking Sausage: Quick, Easy and Minimal Mess — 32 comments
  2. Homemade Peach Liqueur, Capturing the Essence of Summer — 28 comments
  3. Easy To Make Homemade Wild Grape Jam — 27 comments
  4. MacGyver’s Fat Separator, Simple Way to Make Homemade Gravy — 22 comments
  5. Homemade Garden Grape Jam, Welch’s Take Note! — 13 comments

Author's posts

Apr 20

Homemade Sausage: Making Your Own Ground or Minced Meat

Fresh Ground Pork

A part of the experience of making homemade sausage is the process of making your own ground or minced meat. This is not to say that you cannot purchase the ground meat at the grocery store or have the butcher grind selected meats for you, but it does take away from the experience in my …

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Apr 19

Subway’s Big Hot Pastrami Sandwich Review

Big Hot Pastrami from Subway

Why would I even consider reviewing a sandwich from Subway? There is only one reason. This sandwich contains Subway’s version of Pastrami, the seasoned cousin of Corned Beef. After a very disappointing experience with the Arby’s Reuben Sandwich, I felt that fast food cured beef deserved another chance. Before I write anymore, let me make …

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Apr 18

Homemade Sausage: Kitchen Aid Sausage Attachment

Meat Grinder Attachment from Kitchen Aid

Many of us own a Kitchen Aid Mixer that stands nice and pretty on our kitchen counter that is literally too heavy and big to move in and out of a kitchen cabinet the handful of times a year that it is to be used. Likewise, most of us own a Kitchen Aid attachment pack …

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Apr 15

Italian Sausage Simmered with Marinara Sauce

Italian Pasta Sauce with Sausage

The steps required to make a pasta sauce with Italian sausage is much simpler then you realize. There are two requirements: Marinara Sauce and Italian Sausage. One way to prepare this Italian Sausage (Sweet or Hot) with Marinara is to brown (pan / pot fry) sliced raw sausage in the pot that you will use …

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Apr 13

A Yank’s Perspective On Marmite

British Marmite

If one is to believe all that is written on Marmite, there four groups of people. Those that love it, hate it, dismiss it without trying it and those that have never heard of Marmite. My own evolution went from never heard of it, dismissed it without trying and then love it. For us Americans …

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